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In the United States, we're aware of the fact that corporations are legal persons.

In pre-independence India, a court held that a Hindu idol was a legal person, that a mosque was a legal person.

In 2000, the Indian Supreme Court held that the holy books of the Sikh religion was a legal person, and in 2012, just recently, there was a treaty between the indigenous peoples of New Zealand and the crown, in which it was agreed that a river was a legal person who owned its own riverbed.

And by 1985, I realized that I was trying to accomplish something that was literally impossible, the reason being that all of my clients, all the animals whose interests I was trying to defend, were legal things; they were invisible.

It was not going to work, so I decided that the only thing that was going to work was they had, at least some of them, had to also be moved through a hole that we could open up again in that wall and begin feeding the appropriate nonhuman animals through that hole onto the other side of being legal persons.

Now, at that time, there was very little known about or spoken about truly animal rights, about the idea of having legal personhood or legal rights for a nonhuman animal, and I knew it was going to take a long time.

So one of the first things we needed to do was figure out what a cause of action was, a legal cause of action.

And a legal cause of action is a vehicle that lawyers use to put their arguments in front of courts.

It turns out there's a very interesting case that had occurred almost 250 years ago in London called Somerset vs. Stewart, whereby a black slave had used the legal system and had moved from a legal thing to a legal person.

Well, Lord Mansfield had to make a decision right off the bat, because if James Somerset was a legal thing, he was not eligible for a writ of habeus corpus, only if he could be a legal person.

So Lord Mansfield decided that he would assume, without deciding, that James Somerset was indeed a legal person, and he issued the writ of habeus corpus, and James's body was brought in by the captain of the ship.

At that moment, James Somerset underwent a legal transubstantiation.

That guest worker program ties a person's legal status to his or her employer, and denies that worker the right to organize.

Yeah, but, like, I see myself going forward as more likely, like, protecting sex workers', like, legal freedoms and rights.

Now, in Malawi, 18 is the legal marriage age, from 15 to 18. (Applause) It's a good thing to know that the bill passed, but let me tell you this: There are countries where 18 is the legal marriage age, but don't we hear cries of women and girls every day?

And furthermore, I know that together, we can transform the legal, the cultural and political framework that denies girls of their rights.

In Arizona, I went out with a group of women who were made to wear t-shirts saying, "I was a drug addict," and go out on chain gangs and dig graves while members of the public jeer at them, and when those women get out of prison, they're going to have criminal records that mean they'll never work in the legal economy again.

What looks like an everyday, yellow legal tablet of paper is actually a monument to the individual Iraqi civilians that died as a result of the US invasion.

This is a special legal tablet.

Alberto Gonzalez: This is a special legal pad?

Take, for example, the legal field.

Most legal systems today in the world are based on a belief in human rights.

They are what lawyers call legal fictions.

(Applause and cheers) A few years ago, I got a call from the highest ranking legal official in the state of Georgia: the attorney general.

That's actually the legal definition for human trafficking under federal law, for adults.

Why wasn't there a legal way for her to study in Europe?

And no one would put their life savings in the hands of those notorious smugglers if there was a legal way to migrate.

Our installation was therefore perfectly legal, and the Swiss Ambassador informed Chancellor Merkel about it.

In fact, the surprising thing is that there's no legal obligation on anyone in the UK to provide burial space.

And not only is cyberwarfare not covered by existing legal frameworks, but the question of what exactly constitutes cyberwarfare is still highly debated.

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